From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: randy_dunlap Subject: Re: Unexpected IO-APIC Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:42:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20050712094249.29ab7e0d.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: <20050612085603.bbaker@highlandsolutions.com.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050612085603.bbaker@highlandsolutions.com.12> Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Bill Baker Cc: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:56:03 -0500 Bill Baker wrote: | Greetings: | | I performed a kernel update on a RH9 server and saw this in the dmesg log & during boot. Thought I would notify you per the recommendation. | | Message was: | | IO APIC #3...... | .... register #00: 03000000 | ....... : physical APIC id: 03 | .... register #01: 00178020 | ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 | ....... : PRQ implemented: 1 | ....... : IO APIC version: 0020 | .... register #02: 00178020 | ....... : arbitration: 00 | An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less than | three months old please report this to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org | | | The box is a Dell PowerEdge 700, using the onboard Ethernet, originally configured 7/04. | Previous kernel: kernel-smp-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm | New kernel: kernel-smp-2.4.20-43.9.legacy.i686.rpm | | I pulled it off http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/9/updates/i386/ | We had to build a e1000 generic driver on the original install, as well as for this kernel, if that makes any difference. Hi, This was fixed eons ago (maybe 2 years), but in a much later kernel version than 2.4.20. 2.4.20 is neither new nor less than 3 months old. Regards, --- ~Randy